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RABAT, Sept. 27 (Xinhua) -- The Moroccan Prime Minister Saad Eddine El Othmani and vice-president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Alain Pilloux discussed expansion of bilateral cooperation on Wednesday.
The two sides vowed their satisfaction with the current level of cooperation, exploring prospects for cooperation and partnership between Morocco and the Bank, the PM office said in a statement.
They examined ways to join forces to develop local currency lending to small businesses and provide affordable loans to Moroccan banks and microfinance organisations.
During a visit to Morocco EBRD Vice President Pilloux, signed a Memorandum of Understanding today with Morocco's Ministry of Economy and Finance and the Central Bank (Bank Al Maghrib) of Morocco which will pave the way for lending to local small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in local currency, mitigating their exposure to exchange rate volatility.
Morocco is a founding member of the EBRD, which has invested about 1.41 billion U.S. dollars in 30 projects across the country since 2012.
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by Mao Pengfei, Leng Tong
SANTIAGO, March 25 (Xinhua) -- Daniela Ayon Razo ""traveled to Europe to celebrate her birthday and find love,"" said her half sister, Mexico's Milenio daily reported Wednesday.
Ayon, a Mexican girl, is one of the victims aboard the doomed Germanwings plane that crashed in the French Alps Tuesday. All the 150 people on board were killed in the tragedy, at least nine of whom were Latin Americans.
Two Colombians, two Mexicans, three Argentines and one Chilean were aboard the doomed Barcelona-Dusseldorf flight, their governments confirmed.
Meanwhile, according to German news service Deutsche Presse-Agentur,Lufthansa's budget carrier reported its passenger list included two Venezuelans, but it appears that at least one of them was a Chilean national residing in Venezuela.
Chilean lawyer Ximena Patricia Alegria Gonzalez, a 44-year-old mother of two, was living and working in Venezuela as the director of legal consulting firm Serlaca, Chile's ambassador to France Patricio Hales said.
""She was on a business trip to Switzerland, and (her brother) Marcelo Alegria told me that while in Switzerland she became interested in going to see Real Madrid play in Barcelona,"" said Hales.
She died on the return trip to Switzerland, which included a stopover in the German city of Dusseldorf.
Spanish-language network Univision identified the Venezuelan victim as Nolberto Ariza, and said he formerly worked for a cereal firm.
Other passengers of the flight had also traveled for the football match, including two Iranian sports reporters, according to reports.
Mexicans Ayon, a yoga enthusiast who loved to travel, and Dora Isela Salas Vazquez, who had Spanish and Mexican nationality, were traveling separately, but shared the same fate.
""Ayon wanted to meet a man she had talked with on the Internet, saying 'he's the one.' But when she met him in person, he appeared too serious and she decided to go to Barcelona,"" Mexico's Milenio daily quoted her sister Fernanda Rico as saying.
""She used to say that she was going to die young and she chose the most extraordinary and unusual way to go,"" said Rico.
Citing her LinkedIn profile, daily Publimetro said Ayon also liked to ""surf, snowboard and do meditation,"" while Salas' Facebook page said she was a fan of singers Luis Miguel, Chayanne and Franco de Vita, and of authors Isabel Allende, Mario Vargas Llosa and Haruki Murakami.
Colombia's Foreign Affairs Ministry said the airline and relatives confirmed the death of passengers Maria del Pilar Tejada and Luis Eduardo Medrano.
Tejada, 33 and living in Germany, was pursing a doctorate in economics, according to her husband, who said he saw her off at the airport in Barcelona early Tuesday.
Medrano, 36, studied architecture.
The Argentine victims were identified as Gabriela Maumus, Sebastian Greco and Juan Armando Pomo.
More than 70 percent of the crash victims were Germans.